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James, Apocrypha Anecdota, Second Series (Texts and Studies 5.1; Cambridge, 1897) — with the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch), the Testament of Abraham's kin texts and others; Constantin von Tischendorf, Apocalypses apocryphae Mosis, Esdrae, Pauli, Iohannis, item Mariae dormitio (Leipzig: Mendelssohn, 1866) — the Greek Apocalypse of Moses (the Greek Life of Adam and Eve) and the Greek Apocalypse of Esdras; Harvard copy; Bruno Violet, Die Esra-Apokalypse (IV. Esra), Teil 1: Die Überlieferung (GCS 18; Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1910) — the Latin of 4 Ezra with the Syriac, Ethiopic, Arabic and Armenian versions in parallel (German renderings of the eastern versions); Patrologia Syriaca, Pars prima, tomus secundus, ed. R. Graffin (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1907) — with M. Kmosko's Liber Apocalypseos Baruch filii Neriae, the Syriac text of 2 Baruch with a Latin version; Graduate Theological Union copy; N. S. Tichonravov, Pamjatniki otrečennoj russkoj literatury, vol. 1 (St Petersburg, 1863) — with the Slavonic Apocalypse of Abraham (Otkrovenie Avraama); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy, the Internet Archive's derived text PDF (the full-resolution scan, 187.7 MB, exceeds the repository's file limit and is named at its origin); Solomon Schechter and C. Taylor, The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Portions of the Book Ecclesiasticus from Hebrew Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah Collection (Cambridge, 1899) — University of Toronto copy; Paul Wendland, Aristeae ad Philocratem epistula cum ceteris de origine versionis LXX interpretum testimoniis (Leipzig: Teubner, 1900) — Harvard copy; Pierre Batiffol, Studia patristica: études d'ancienne littérature chrétienne, fasc. 1–2 (Paris: Leroux, 1889–90) — Le livre de la Prière d'Aseneth, the Greek of Joseph and Aseneth with the Latin", "language": "grc, lat, syr, chu, heb", "license": { "payload": "Public domain: every edition here was published before 1931 and is public domain in the United States; the texts are ancient. 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The scanners read Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to varying degrees and the Syriac and Hebrew not at all: where the text layer is noise over a script, the scan is the only reading.", "scope": "The Second Temple apocalypses and pseudepigrapha the archive did not hold, each in the original language of its earliest surviving witness, in the standard public-domain edition. Already on the shelf and not repeated: the Septuagint deuterocanon (Judith, Tobit, 1–4 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach in Greek, Baruch, the Epistle of Jeremiah, Susanna, Bel, the Psalms of Solomon, the Odes with the Prayer of Manasseh) in EA-CORPORA-01/05; the Qumran Aramaic Enoch and Giants in EA-CORPORA-02/01; 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the Ascension of Isaiah, 4 Baruch and the Ethiopic Ezra in Ge'ez in EA-CORPORA-02/20 and 20/01. 2 Enoch survives only in Slavonic; the open editions found in this pass are translations (Morfill and Charles, 1896), and Sokolov's Slavonic text (Moscow, 1910) was not found in an open scan: QUEUED. Modern critical editions (Göttingen Sirach, de Jonge's Testaments, Picard's 3 Baruch, Burchard's Aseneth) are in copyright and are not seated.", "verified_loci": [ "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the title of the Testament of Reuben — 'διαθήκη Ῥουβὴμ περὶ ἐννοιῶν,'", "Geffcken, title — 'DIE ORACULA SIBYLLINA'", "James 1897, running head of 3 Baruch — 'THE APOCALYPSE OF BARUCH.'", "Tischendorf 1866, the Apocalypse of Moses — 'APOCALYPSIS MOSIS.'", "Tischendorf 1866, the Greek title of the Apocalypse of Moses — 'Διήγησις τοῦ μεγάλου' (the OCR reads the next word as 'Scénrou'; the scan is the witness)", "Violet 1910, the Latin incipit of 4 Ezra 3:1 — 'Anno tricesimo' ('Incipit quartus: Anno tricesimo …' as Violet quotes the manuscript)", "Kmosko 1907, the Latin title of 2 Baruch — 'APOCALYPSIS BARUCH FILII NERIAE' (the Syriac stands on the facing pages; the text layer does not read it)", "Tichonravov 1863, running head of the Apocalypse of Abraham — 'ОТКРОВЕШЕ АВРААМА' (the OCR reads ОТКРОВЕНІЕ as ОТКРОВЕШЕ throughout)", "Schechter–Taylor 1899, title — 'THE WISDOM OF BEN SIRA' (the Hebrew is read from the scan)", "Wendland 1900, running head — 'ARISTEAE'", "Batiffol 1889, the subject of the edition — 'mariage de Joseph, fils de Jacob^ avec Aseneth'" ], "loci_not_found": [], "lines_total": 319074, "why_seated": "The apocalypses between the Testaments are the archive's Revelation line before Revelation: the visions of Ezra and Baruch after the fall of the Temple, Abraham's ascent, the Sibyl's oracles, the patriarchs' last words. The Septuagint seat holds the books a canon kept; this seat holds what the canons let go, in the languages that kept them.", "spine": "Second Temple Apocalypses", "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim?\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\"", "classes": { "Church Slavonic": "original-language edition", "Greek": "original-language edition", "Greek, with the Latin": "original-language edition", "Hebrew": "original-language edition", "Latin, with the versions": "original-language edition", "Syriac": "original-language edition" } }